GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ecotourism, Maasai Mara, Endangered Species
1 Dec 2016
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One that leads to mass hunger & starvation. Drought = a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, The sublime (feels the greatness of god, feel the power of the natural world and our creator, ex. Nostalgia & anti-modern sentiment (takes on the connotation of a space for escape, experience peace) The closing of the american frontier (late 1800s there"s not a lot of empty space left, from east to west coast, a lot of americans feared that as the frontier closes that you lose something about being american. If these vast spaces were lost or destroyed by the. Europeans that they would lose the american identity. ) Saving america"s wild character (no development in these particular areas because they embody something about the americans, ex. Save nature by protecting it, putting a boarder around it and separating it from people. People don"t belong in wilderness, see a split of nature (inside) & society (outside)
